The ISSI2018 is the 8th annual symposium on Structural Integrity Series. Before ISSI2018, the ISSI2010 was held at Shanghai in 2010, the ISSI2011 at Hefei in 2011, the ISSI2012 at Jinan in 2012, the ISSI2014 at Lanzhou in 2014, the ISSI2015 at Shenyang in 2015, the ISSI2016 at Tianjin in 2016, followed by the joint conference of ESIA14-ISSI2017 in Manchester in 2017. The predecessor of the annual symposium, Fracture Mechanics (FM) series, took place each year from 2003 to 2009 and was also organized by CSIC.